Presented on September 23, 1985 at Quarry Farm. James M. Cox is Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Recovering Literature's Lost Ground: Essays in American Autobiography (1989) and Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor (2002). He is the editor of the Penguin edition of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi . My talk will focus on Mark Twain's progress from being a real outlaw (a traitor and a deserter) to his invention of a boy outlaw, a true fugitive, writing...
Topics: Violence, Civil War, Slavery
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Presented on Monday, March 28, 1988 at The Park Church. Professor Myra Glenn of Elmira College's History faculty will speak on "Thomas K. Beecher and the Anti-Slavery Movement." She is currently at work on a biography of the Reverend and spoke recently on her subject at the Ninth Mid-America Conference on History. Professor Glenn has authored a book and several articles on reform in nineteenth century America and has served as a visiting Professor of History at Casa Thomas...
Topics: Twain's Circle, Elmira, Racial Issues, Slavery, Religion
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Presented on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus as part of the Spring 2019 "Trouble Begins" Lecture Series. Told by the New Orleans fortune teller Madame Caprell that he should have been a lawyer, Samuel Clemens dismissed the law as "too prosy and tiresome." But his immersion in legal language and legal fictions betrayed him. From the early days of his career, covering the Nevada Territorial legislature and reporting on the police and...
Topic: Law
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Presented on Monday, July 23 at Quarry Farm. Professor Susan K. Harris of Queens College will speak on "Overcoming Sin: The Audiences for Mark Twain's 'Hadleyburg.'" Professor Harris is the author of books, articles, and reviews on Mark Twain, nineteenth century American women writers, and other figures and topics in American literature.
Topics: Later Works, Religion
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Presented on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at The Park Church. In his 1899 essay "Concerning the Jews," Twain states: I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no racial prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse." Although the writer refused to name the one bias he admits to harboring, abundant evidence in...
Topics: Racial Issues, Native Americans
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Presented on Saturday, October 6 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age." In The Ordeal of Mark Twain , Van Wyck Brooks argued, with impressive disdain, that Mark Twain was a sell out, the he "abidcated his independence as creative spirit." While he places much of the blame on Twain himself, and on his own avarice and insecurity, Brooks also takes aim at Olivia Langdon, daughter...
Topics: Economics, Gothic Literature
Presented on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Lance Heidig is a Reference and Instruction Librarian in Research and Learning Services at Cornell University and is an independent scholar of Mark Twain. One does not necessarily think of Cornell University when one is pondering the life and legacy of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but Mark Twain did. Several of the stories that he remembered late in his life and dictated for his Autobiography (the 1924 edition edited by Albert Bigelow...
Topics: Autobiography, Family, Twain's Circle, Elmira
Presented on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. What took Mark Twain to Bermuda so many times between 1867, at the beginning of his career, and 1910, at the very end of his life? The answers to this simple question call into consideration Mark Twain's peculiar temperament and the particular circumstances of his extraordinarily restless and energetic life. Where did he stay on the islands? What did he see? Who were his companions? How did he spend his time in such a...
Topics: Travel, Bermuda
Presented on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 in Hamilton Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Mark Twain wrote, "Most us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." Join Cindy Lovell as she describes the trajectory of love and devotion that led to the creation of "Mark Twain: Words & Music" - a tribute double CD project comprised of song and spoken word. Using Clemens's language and carefully selected songs (some written especially for the project), two...
Topic: Music
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Presented at the Chemung County Historical Society on September 29, 2016. Dr. Seybold is the Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College. Dr. Seybold explores the idea of Twain as an economic theorist and historian whose perspective remains highly relevant to the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession.
Topics: Economics, Globalization, Imperialism, China
Presented on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Since shortly before his death, local boosters, scholars, and others, have wanted to see where Mark Twain (and Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn) lived. These fans put a great deal of faith in his houses as places where they could access the "real" Mark Twain. At his houses, now museums, Twain remains as popular as he ever was during his lifetime. Focusing on the history of Florida, Hannibal, Hartford, and Elmira at...
Topics: Museum Studies, Hartford, Elmira
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Presented on Saturday, October 6, 2018 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age." During the Gilded Age, both Mark Twain's fiction and Thorstein Veblen's political economy explored why institutions endure. They explored, that is, the problem of habit - acquired by unconscious "propensities," in Veblen's words, that "seek realization and expression in an unfolding...
Topics: Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson, Economics, The Gilded Age
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Presented on May 1, 1996 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1996 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Jim Zwick is a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Social Science Program at Syracuse university. He is the author of numerous articles on Mark Twain and is the editor of Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War (Syracuse University Press, 1992). He also created the Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web and...
Topics: Grief, Politics
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Presented on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 in The Barn at Quarry Farm. Hoi Na Kung is currently a third-year doctorate student in the English department at Indiana University, where she specializes in 19th and 20th century American literature with an emphasis on critical race studies and gender studies. She is currently working on a project exploring representations of sensory experiences in African American and Asian American literature written in the age of globalization. Mark Twain’s A...
Topics: Gender Studies, Connecticut Yankee, Technology
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Presented on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. The title of this talk comes from a letter in which William Dean Howells congratulates Clemens on his 1903 anti-vivisection novella, A Dog's Tale . Mother dog Aileen Mavourneen's first-person account of a brutal experiment that killed her puppy is indeed heart breaking, and it gave much-need support to the movement against animal experimentation. In depicting animal subjectivity and challenging widely...
Topics: Animals, Twain's Circle, Later Works
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Presented on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in Historic Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. "Travelin' Man" looks into how Mark Twain's prodigious travels around his region, then the nation, then the world, have provided pleasure and scholarly thought for more than a century. Somewhat less appreciated has been the transformative effect Twain's lifelong appetite for exploration (move--move--Move!", he wrote in a letter to his family--) produced upon American literature, the...
Topics: Travel, Literary History, Gilded Age, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad
Presented on Wednesday, May 18, 2012 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. "Unconscious cerebration," "unconscious plagiarism," "mental telegraphy" - Mark Twain had various names for what the brain seemingly does beyond our consciousness. Tom Sawyer mutters in his sleep the truth about the murder of Doc Robinson. Tom Canty, the pauper disguised as the prince, reveals his identity to his mother by his uncontrollable reflex action of shielding his eyes when startled....
Topics: Psychology, Science
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Presented on Wednesday, September 13, 1989 at Quarry Farm. Malcolm Marsden, Dana Professor of English at Elmira Collge, will speak on "Mr. Micawber and Colonel Sellers: Transatlantic Cousins." Professor Marsden has been a member of the Center's Advisory Board since its inception and regularly reviews books for the Mark Twain Society Bulletin. He has authored books, articles, and reviews in the field of American literature and is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in...
Topic: The GIlded Age
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Presented on Wednesday, April 13, 1988 at Quarry Farm. William Loos, Curator of the Rare Books Room at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, will give "An Illustrated Talk on How Huckleberry Finn Came to New York State." Mr. Loos and his library were recently in the news when the Buffalo Library was the high bidder for a much sought after lengthy letter from Mark Twain to a Buffalo lawyer about the composition of Twain's great American novel. The letter will be added to an...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Buffalo, Museum Studies
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Presented on Monday, July 24, 1989 in the Quarry Farm Barn. Hamlin Hill, Professor of English at Texas A&M University, will speak on "Late Mark Twain: From Bad Philosophy to Worse Literature." Professor Hill is the Center's Distinguished Fellow-in-Residence this summer. During his tenure here, he is the Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for Teachers on "The Heritage of Huckleberry Finn." Professor Hill has lectured throughout the...
Topic: Later Works
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Presented on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at the Park Church as part of the 2019 Park Church Summer Lecture Series. The December 1872 death of Hawaiian monarch Kamehameha spurred renewed interest among US citizens and politicians alike in the annexation of the Hawaiian islands. To satisfay the public's increased curiosity about Hawai'i in January 1873 the New York Daily Tribune sought testimony in the form of two letters from a well-known expert on the islands: Mark Twain. Twain had gained...
Topics: Hawaii, Humor Studies, Newspapers
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David Sewell, associate professor of English at Rochester University, will speak on "Mark Twain as Liar." In addition to authoring articles and reviews, he is the author of Mark Twain's Languages: Discourse, Dialogue, and Linguistic Variety .
Topic: Linguistics
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Presented on Wednesday, May 4, 1994 at Quarry Farm. The Center welcomes the return of Victor Doyno, professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, as this season's Distinguished Academic Scholar in Residence. The author of the acclaimed book Writing Huck FinnL Mark Twain's Creative Process , Professor Doyno is currently at work analyzing the recently recovered Part II of the Huck manuscript.
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Writing Process
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Presented on Wednesday, October 12, 1994 at Quarry Farm. Marlene Boyd Vallin, Pennsylvania State University.
Topic: Lecture Circuit
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Presented on October 9, 1996 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1996 Fall "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Mary Boewe is author of Quarry Farm Paper #4 and numerous articles and reviews about Mark Twain. She chaired the panel on Mark Twain's Home Circle for the 1993 conference on "The State of Mark Twain Studies."
Topics: Twain's Circle, Influences, Influences
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Presented on Wednesday, March 9, 1988 at Quarry Farm. Professor Robert Regan of the University of Pennsylvania's English Department will speak about Mark Twain's view of art in a talk titled "The Art Ignoramus and the Art Snob: Mark Twain and John Ruskin." Professor Regan is the spring's Distinguished Academic Visitor at the Center. He has publsihed widely on mark Twain and other American authors. His principal work is Uncompromising Heroes: Mark Twain and his Characters ,...
Topics: Art, Influences
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Presented on Wednesday, October 27, 1993 at Quarry Farm. Dr. Resa Willis is a professor of literature at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, and the author of Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him . During the work on her book, Dr. Willis was a research scholar at the Center.
Topics: Family, Women's Studies
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Presented on Tuesday, September 12, 1995 at Quarry Farm. Dr. Fisher Fishkin is the author of Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices , published by Oxford University Press in 1993.
Topic: Racial Issues
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Presented on November 13, 1996 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1996 Fall "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. A Lecture and Book Signing Party to celebrate the publication of The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain by Susan K. Harris (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Topics: Elmira, Family, Literary History
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Presented on Wednesday. November 7, 2018 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the Fall 2018 "Trouble Begins" lecture series. As he did for many summers, Mark Twain packed up his family (including dogs and cats, and in this case, a bicycle) and left Hartford for an extended stay at Elmira's Quarry Farm. Part of my current work-in-progress, a micro-biograph of Twain in the year 1884, my presentation will let audiences relive his and his family's experience that summer. Even though...
Topics: Elmira, Quarry Farm, Family, Twain's Circle
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Presented on October 6, 2018 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age." In his 2015 essay "White Boy (American Hunger) and the Angel History: Russel Banks's Identity Knowledge," Evan Carton argues that Banks's novels provide an illuminating window onto the question of identity construction in that they repeatedly narrate a white identity that is "necessarily incomplete,...
Topics: Russell Banks, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Gilded Age
Presented on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Dr. Bush will offer a brief summary of sume of the material from his new book, Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age . Twain's cultural achievement was deeply indebted to the forms of Christianity of the specific time and place in American history. Much of this debt was positive for Twain, so much so that he could occasionally wax eloquent about Christianity as "the most precious and elevating and ennobling...
Topics: Religion, Civil War
Presented on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at the Quarry Farm Barn. David H Fears has had a lifetime interest in Mark Twain. He has also written nearly one hundred short stories with about sixteen published, and four novels, one published by Amazon. Fears is a pretty handy name for horror stories, but he also focuses on mainstream nostalgic, literary, hard-boiled mystery and some fantasy-magical realism. For the past five years, David has devoted his full time to producing Mark Twain Day By Day...
Topics: Elmira, Twain's Circle, Research Methodology
Presented on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Abraham Kupersmith is Professor Emeritus of Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. This talk, based on Kupersmith’s recently published book, Twain and Freud on the Human Race: Parallels on Personality, Politics and Religion , will provide an overview of the psychological insights and theories of Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud. Although at first glance these two men seem to constitute an unlikely...
Topics: Psychology, Religion, Politics, Patriotism
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Presented on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. While much instructive scholarship has been published treating Mark Twain's interest in and use of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur as a predecessor text for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , his interest in and use of works from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as potential predecessor texts for The Prince and the Pauper and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc constitute a dimension of his medievalism that invites...
Topics: Connecticut Yankee, Joan of Arc, The Prince and The Pauper, Influences, Joan of Arc, Prince and the...
Presented on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Mark Twain was entranced by his Hartford friend Joe Twichell's stories of his experiences in the Civil War, where the minister-to-be was chaplain to a rough New York City regiment, and the author was quite happy to steal them. Steve Courtney, who with Peter Messent has edited the just-published Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story, will speak on Twichell's war-time experiences and their uses in Mark...
Topics: Joseph Twichell, Civil War
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Presented on Wednesday, September 9, 1992. Gretchen Sharlow speaks "In Favor of the Farm." Ms. Sharlow is the Center's Associate Director and had conducted extensive research on Mark Twain's home circle. Her research notes have appeared or are forthcoming in the publications of the Center, the Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, the Mark Twain Journal , and the Mark Twain Encyclopedia
Topics: Quarry Farm, Elmira, Twain's Circle, Family
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Presented on Wednesday, September 2, 1994. David L. Smith, Willams College.
Topics: Humor Studies, Racial Issues
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Presented on Monday, September 21, 1992 at Quarry Farm. Sanford Pinsker, Shadek Humanities Professor at Franklin and Marshall College, will talk about "Mark Twain and the Jews." Professor Pinsker is the author of numerous, books, articles, and reviews in the fields of American literature and American-Jewish literature and culture, serves on the editorial boards of a variety of literary reviews and journals, has taught abroad as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer, and is the author of a...
Topic: Jewish Studies
Presented on Friday, November 30, 2012 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Remarks on the prickly relationship between Samuel L. Clemens and Theodore Roosevelt through two decades when their lives overlapped and modern America was formed. Philip McFarland is the author of two works of fiction and six of non-fiction, including Hawthorne in Concord and Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe . His most recent book is Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the...
Topic: Theodore Roosevelt
Presented on Thursday, May 3, 2007 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. "The War-Prayer," a satire by Mark Twain on a nation's invoking religion as it goes off to war, was written 102 years ago - but, sadly, it's as fresh as the morning paper today. First published in 1923, "The War-Prayer" remains among the least-well-known works by Twain as far as the general public is concerned. Indeed, educated individuals are often startled and shocked when they are introduced by this...
Topics: Imperialism, Religion, Later Works, Patriotism, Reception
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Recorded on August 9, 2018 at the Chemung County Historical Society. The tropes of the innocent, who reveals cultural absurdities through his seemingly foolish observations, dates back to the earliest satires of Rome and Europe. This innocent brims with certainty that his ignorance is both apt and virtuous, and inspires audiences to laugh at his idiocy. I argue that during what was most commonly referred to as the Gilded Age, a clear thread of satire begins to emerge, one that shifts the...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Diaries of Adam and Eve, Humor, National Identity
Presented on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. In a bitter diary entry near the end of his life, Mark Twain denounced "patriotism" as "that grotesque and laughable word The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism," he thundered," is moral cowardice and always has been." This denunciation reflected Twain's growing estrangement from politics following his wife's death, a time he saw as both a personal and national fall....
Topics: Patriotism, Later Years
Presented on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. People are always surprised to learn that Mark Twain wrote a long book about Joan of Arc. They are even more surprised to hear that he said it was his best book. Better than Huckleberry Finn , written 14 years earlier? Probably no one today would agree with that view. So, what are we to think of Twain's judgement? Was he being provocative? Was he carried away with some enthusiasm? Or did he just make a big mistake?...
Topics: Joan of Arc, France
Presented on Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Steve Courtney, former Publicist and Publications Editor for The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, now works on special projects for the museum. In the past decade, Courtney has written and spoken on Samuel Clemens’ friend Joseph Hopkins Twichell and his role in literary and social history. Steve Courtney, shares glimpses of the Clemens’ family life in Hartford -- how young Clara Clemens once screamed so...
Topics: Hartford, Family, Twain's Circle
Presented on Wednesday, May 25 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Mark Twain was unquestionably among the most prolific and hardest working authors of his era. But did Twain ever really "work" at writing? He consistently identified his creative activities more closely with "play" then with "work" and may even have conceived of writing as antithetical to labor. In this lecture, Professor Wonham will examine Twain's understanding of these sometimes operated, sometimes...
Topics: Quarry Farm, Elmira, Writing Process
Presented on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Mark Twain's love of the blackface minstrel show has seemed puzzling and even downright painful, because few aspects of American popular culture have been more offensive - and more enduring. In recent times, blackface has shown up again in Broadway, in dance competitions, on late-night television, and even in cupcake ads. Blackface, it seems, will mot go away. Mark Twain recognized its painful and enduring power almost 150...
Topic: Racial Issues
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Presented on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 in Historic Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Obsession is frequently an overlooked focus of major literary works. In novels like Moby Dick , The Picture of Dorian Gray , The Aspern Papers , The Great Gatsby , and many others, characters are often driven to extremes by their various obsessions over various objects or concerns. But sometimes obsession infiltrates the author's audience as well. One manifestation of this is when a reader's...
Topic: Popular Culture
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Presented on May 1, 1996 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1996 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough are the editors of the recently published book The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings of Heaven, Eden, and The Flood (University of Georgia Press, 1995). Howard G. Baetzhold is the Rebecca Clifton Reade Professor of English Emeritus at Butler University and the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies' first John S. Tuckey...
Topic: Religion
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Presented on April 30, 1997 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1997 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Krauth is the co-chair for the August 14-16, 1997 conference on "The State of Mark Twain Studies." He is the author of numerous articles on Mark Twain. Dr. Krauth is currently at work on a book entitled Mark Twain: The Man in the White Linen Suit."
Topic: Early Works
